New Jersey Girl, 6, Dies in School Bus on Her Way to School after Monitor Leaves Her Unattended

• A little girl from New Jersey tragically lost her life on a school bus despite the monitor of the vehicle being present.
• While in transit to school, the six-year-old girl was found unresponsive in the back of the bus.
• Almost an hour later, the devastated mother received the gut-wrenching news of what happened to her little girl via a phone call.

A day in which a loving mother thought her little daughter would be protected and looked after on her bus ride to school ended tragically after the little girl lost her life. Namjah Nash Williams would not have imagined that she would never see her six-year-old daughter's face again after one fateful school bus ride that ironically had a bus monitor present.

Little Fajr Williams was in transit for approximately 45 minutes until her mother, Namjah, received a detrimental phone call. Upon answering the call, Namjah's life changed for the worse.

The person on the other end of the call informed Namjah that something terrible had happened to her daughter. The bereaved mom said:

"They told me she arrived nonresponsive and that they had to do CPR and that they were still performing it."

Despite the Bus Monitor Being Present on the Ride to School, the Little Girl's Life Was Lost

Fajr was on board at the back of a Montauk Transit school bus that was handicap equipped and set to take her to her summer school program at Claremont Elementary School in New Jersey, which she only started on July 5, and would attend four days a week.

According to the prosecutors in charge of handling the case, the bus attendant, 27-year-old Amanda Davila, who was meant to be keeping an eye on the children, had been distracted by her phone and had earphones plugged in.

As revealed by her mother, the little girl was diagnosed with a development disruptive chromosomal disorder called Emmanuel syndrome, which prohibited her ability to speak or walk. As such, she needed to be in a wheelchair. However, Fajr was able to communicate by making cooing sounds.

Upon the bus driver hitting a bump in the road during the journey, little Fajr's body slid down in her chair, causing the wheelchair harness to position itself tightly against her neck. The result ultimately ended in the little girl tragically suffocating to death.

The drive from the Williams family home in Somerset County to the school is 15 minutes, and upon reaching the school unresponsive, Fajr was immediately rushed to the ICU of a local hospital before being pronounced dead shortly after. Davila has since been charged after being arrested on Wednesday.

The superintendent and a Franklin Township Board of Education spokesperson issued statements about the tragedy and extended prayers and condolences to the bereaved family.

Video footage of Davila's negligence, currently in possession of the Somerset County prosecutor's office, showed enough evidence to charge Davila with second-degree manslaughter and child welfare endangerment. Davila will serve prolonged sentences in prison if found guilty on both counts.

While the bus monitor awaits a pending detention hearing in police custody, Fajr's grief-stricken parents still grapple with their devastating loss and have expressed their grievances and concerns to the Franklin Township School District's Board of Education, Montauk Transit, and Davila. While being interviewed about the tragic story, Fajr's father, Wali Williams, expressed:

"They need to be properly trained and equipped. Obviously, she wasn't if she's sitting on the bus with disabled kids and she's on her cellphone with headphones on her head... and doing whatever she was doing while my daughter back there fighting."

Still reeling from the unbelievable tragedy they had just experienced, Wali reiterated his and his wife's grief. The devastated parents did not even get any chance to say final goodbyes to their baby girl and only have the gut-wrenching ordeal as their last memories of the sweet girl. Her shattered mother, Namjah, tearfully divulged:

"She was the sweetest kid you'll ever meet. She had the sweetest little laugh, her little dimples, and she just endured so much throughout her little six years of being on this earth. She had multiple surgeries; she didn't deserve this, she did not deserve this, to be taken away from us in such a way that had... nothing to do with her condition."

Little Fajr's Devastated Parents Open Up about Their Grief

The deceased girl's parents revealed how broken they remain over the complete negligence of those responsible, and Namjah has said that the traumatic incident still does not feel real to her. She spoke about how her comprehension of the tragedy will spin her into a whirlwind in which she will feel like she is functioning at one moment but barely cope at other times.

To add insult to injury, Namjah works for Modivcare, specializing in non-emergency medical transportation as a quality assurance agent. She works in the very same industry she entrusted to make sure her daughter had the tools to be well taken care of and kept safe.

Both parents continued to highlight the fact that the tragedy could have been avoided had those responsible simply paid attention and done due diligence. Namjah ended her interview by vowing:

"This will never ever happen again if I have any say so. I deal with these things to make sure that this doesn't happen, and it happens to my baby."

Namjah has since pleaded with the Board of Education to ensure a thorough assessment of the transportation companies they hire under contract is done, as she expressed that parents can only do so much to ensure all safety measures are taken.

The superintendent and a Franklin Township Board of Education spokesperson issued statements about the tragedy and extended prayers and condolences to the bereaved family.

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